Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers

Contents: Correlations in Conjugated Polymers; Nature of the Primary Photo-Excitations in Poly(Arylene-Vinylenes): Bound Neutral Excitons or Charged Polaron Pairs; Excitons in Conjugated Polymers; Intramolecular Excitons and Intermolecular Polaron Pairs as Primary Photoexcitations in Conjugated Polymers; Excitonic Effects in the Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers; Bound Polaron Pair Formation in Poly (Phenylenevinylenes); Luminescence Efficiency and Time-Dependence: Insights into the Nature of the Emitting Species in Conjugated Polymers; Photoluminescence Spectroscopy as a Probe for Disorder and Excitonic Effects in Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors; Spectroscopy on Conjugated Polymer Devices; Spin-Dependent Recombination Processes in p–Conjugated Polymers; Electroabsorption Spectroscopy on p–Conjugated Polymers; The Role of Excitons in Charge Carrier Production in Polysilanes; Theory of Excitons and Biexcitons inp–Conjugated Polymers; Ultrafast Relaxation in Conjugated Polymers; Are Bipolarons Photogenerated in PPV?; Do Bipolarons Exist in Doped or Photoirradiated Conjugated Polymers? – An Analysis Based on Studies ofModel Compounds; Photoexcitations in Conjugated Oligomers; Excited States in Poly(Paraphenylenevinylene) and Related Oligomers: Theoretical Investigation of Their Relation to Electrical and Optical Properties; Ultrafast Photoinduced Absorption in Nondegenerate Ground-State Conjugated Polymers: Signatures of Excited States.